He couldn’t get into Congress, his restaurant went belly up, he’s being sued by the restaurant property owner and now Tennessee says he’s a thief and a tax cheat.

POLK COUNTY, Tenn. — Rick Tyler, a longtime White supremacist who gained some notoriety while running for Congress with the theme “Make America White Again”, and last year waxed poetic at a conference he organized about a scenario where armed men guard Confederate monuments to keep it from being taken down – the scenario of the tragic “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, has been arrested Monday and indicted on one count of theft and tax evasion.

According to the Tennessee Department of Revenue, the Polk County Grand Jury indicted Tyler, 63, on one count of theft of property between $10,000 and $60,000 as well as the one count of tax evasion. If convicted, he could be sentenced to a maximum of six years in the state penitentiary and fined up to $10,000 for theft of property and up to two years and fined $3,000 for tax evasion.

Active since the 1990s when he was first seen active in the patriot/militia movement of the time, Tyler ran a Christian Identity church in Epworth, GA called the Church of the Remnant as well as two organizations, the Georgia Taxpayers Association and the Voice of Liberty Patriots. He hosted a shortwave radio program called “Voice of Liberty” which was his platform for anti-Semitic rants. Eventually, he ended up in Pensacola, Florida and worked with the Tea Party campaigns and Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty. In 2010, One People’s Project Executive Director Daryle Lamont Jenkins became involved with a case where he was testified on behalf of Johnny and Deborah Glazner who were awarded custody of two sons Johnny had with his ex-wife Elizabeth Quayle, who married Tyler and eventually moved with him to Tennessee and opened a restaurant called the Whitewater Grill in Ocoee on Highway 64, near where his “I Have a Dream” billboard is located. The sons, who are now adults were never turned over to Johnny Glazner, who died in 2017 never seeing his sons again. Tyler’s biological son Jacob wrote for the anti-Semitic American Free Press under the name “Jacob Kachelhofer”.

He ran several times for office, twice as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate in Florida, and twice as a independent candidate for the 3rd District Congressional seat in Tennessee. He generated nationwide attention because near his restaurant he posted a campaign billboard with the slogan “Make America White Again”. Tyler received 5,098 votes, or 1.9% of the total number of votes cast, and when he ran for the same seat in 2018, he did even worse, received 4,522 votes, or 1.84% of the total number of votes cast. In May 2019 while speaking at the University of Knoxville, an event that also generated controversy and more protesters than attendees, Tyler announced that he was running for President on the American Freedom Party ticket.

The following month, Tyler organized the “Nationalist Solutions Conference” as a member of the American Freedom Party at Montgomery Bell State Park in Burns, TN, which is also where the American Renaissance Conference is held annually. It was met with protesters and infiltrators who were able to capture him and others on video. In one, Tyler waxed poetic about the Unite the Right rally, comparing it to the rallies held by Klan leader Fraizer Glenn Miller, who is now on Death Row after he killed three people in a 2014 shooting spree at both a Jewish-run community center and retirement community in Overland Park, Kansas. He also spoke of what should happen when other monuments such as the statutes in Charlottesville are similarly threatened, suggesting armed men protecting those monuments. “Imagine the day in the future when the enemies of our race are getting ready to take down another monument…another domino is getting ready to fall, and amongst our ranks…we decide that this is where in an Alamo type fashion we have got to draw the line. It just has to be done. And so, let’s just say hypothetically 200 men…go to Santa Monica armed and announce to the world, ‘We are not going to allow this monument to be taken down. This is it, this is the redline, this is the Alamo, it ain’t happening!’” Ironically, Tyler arrest comes the same week that the Tennessee Capital Commission voted to remove the bust of Confederate General and early Klan Leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from the Statehouse.

Tyler also is facing a lawsuit for $160,000 in unpaid rent filed by the property owner he rented the Whitewater Grille from, which is no longer in business. The property owner is also suing for property damage to Whitewater Grille.

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